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When did the umps start NOT to require the 2nd baseman to touch the bag on a double play?
Pharmboy ^ | 4-30-12 | Me

Posted on 04/30/2012 5:41:51 PM PDT by Pharmboy

I have noticed this for a LONG time, but I have never asked about it, nor have I ever seen it discussed.

I am watching my Mets against Houston, and the Astros have a man on first. Sharp grounder to third, and Wright backhands it and throws to Murphy at second, and Murphy is AT LEAST 1.5 feet off the bag when he catches it, wheels and throws to first; BUT the ump calls the Astro OUT at second.

When did this start??


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KEYWORDS: baseball; doubleplay; umps
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To: Pharmboy

Shortly after they stopped calling traveling in the NBA...


81 posted on 04/30/2012 6:55:55 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: Pharmboy

roughly the same time the NBA let players take 3 steps when they slam dunk.


82 posted on 04/30/2012 6:56:23 PM PDT by dangerdoc (see post #6)
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To: dewawi

“am paying 40% of my income in taxes and people that can’t seem to get over watching ADULTS play a children’s game for MILLIONS OF DOLLARS expect ME to pay even MORE in taxes to help them build STADIUMS for them to ooh and ahh their baseball warrior heroes....”

We all have problems but it doesn’t help anyone to denigrate someone because they find pleasure in something you find foolish.


83 posted on 04/30/2012 6:59:40 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: laweeks
Head coach wears little boy clothes (what other sport does that?)

I think it is the manager in baseball. But you do have the clothes part right.

84 posted on 04/30/2012 7:11:11 PM PDT by bubbacluck (I'll pay more for tomatoes, thank you.)
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To: Pharmboy

“Tricks Of The Trade

Loaded bats, phantom DPs and balls doctored with everything from flour to fly-line cleaner may be illegit, but they’re as much a part of the grand old game as, well, the spitter”

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1124378/1/index.htm

A cool article from Sports Illustrated....1981


85 posted on 04/30/2012 7:12:21 PM PDT by JoeDetweiler
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To: MacMattico

My daughter played high school softball. It can get competitive.

I’ll bet you don’t “throw like a girl”. :)


86 posted on 04/30/2012 7:30:35 PM PDT by detective
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To: dewawi

Is dewawi Swahili for dickhead?


87 posted on 04/30/2012 7:51:37 PM PDT by BreezyDog (PLAN A: A Peaceful Restoration of the Republic.....PLAN B: A Restoration of the Republic)
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To: Pharmboy

According to longtime major league shortstop, coach, manager, and analyst Larry Bowa, at least 25 years prior to 1981.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19810825&id=a0YcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xl0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4503,5505551


88 posted on 04/30/2012 7:53:45 PM PDT by Yudan (Living comes much easier once we admit we're dying.)
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To: Pharmboy

Sometime around 1879 I would guess.

I’ve personally been seeing it since the 1960’s.


89 posted on 04/30/2012 7:56:28 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: mkmensinger
Not sure what hockey league you watch, but in the NHL, they ALWAYS call offsides, and very, very rarely get it wrong, and they most definitely don't let it slide if its "close" int the interest of keeping the game moving.

Believe me, I've gone back and watched many plays since I got a DVR, and they have only gotten it wrong a couple of times, usually because their view is blocked.

90 posted on 04/30/2012 7:58:55 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: dewawi
AGAIN, I am paying 40% of my income in taxes and people that can’t seem to get over watching ADULTS play a children’s game for MILLIONS OF DOLLARS expect ME to pay even MORE in taxes to help them build STADIUMS for them to ooh and ahh their baseball warrior heroes....

Now they (people that like to watch adults play children’s games for millions) want us to pay for a football stadium despite the fact that probably once a week a professional football player in this state is charged with some violent felony.

You need to go to a hockey game and sit down close to the ice. That way a hard check and smash to the face will cover you with blood and teeth as the players slug it out right in front of you.

Then go hunting, and not only shoot an animal, but field dress it and make sure you leave a nice gut pile for the forest critters to eat, while you pack out the bloody meat.

After that, you can work extra hard to pay more taxes than ever before, while bringing home ever less money, and watching people who do far less than you get ahead in life effortlessly, while you cry in the dark.

Punk.

91 posted on 04/30/2012 8:10:20 PM PDT by Talisker (He who commands, must obey.)
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To: dangerdoc

>>roughly the same time the NBA let players take 3 steps when they slam dunk.<<

3?? What are you thinking — Jerry West?

Today it is like, 10 to 15 steps. As I noted upthread, Jordan could go from his foul line to dunk into the opponent’s basket and the basketball would never touch the floor.


92 posted on 04/30/2012 8:14:22 PM PDT by freedumb2003 ('RETRO' Abortions = performed on 84th trimester individuals who think killing babies is a "right.")
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To: dewawi

Lots of people care.including me.

Some people like music.some like art,and some like sports.

Grow up.


93 posted on 04/30/2012 8:18:53 PM PDT by Mears (Alcohol. Tobacco. Firearms. What's not to like?)
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To: Pharmboy

The only thing that gets enforced around second base is when the runner tried to take out the fielder and makes no attempt to touch the bag. I know when I played, I liked to submarine my throws to first on double play attempts to force the runner to slide earlier than they wanted.


94 posted on 04/30/2012 8:36:12 PM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: Delta Dawn; detective
You should have seen my friends attempting to cover up my eye with make-up the next morning! One said “There, it looks fine, just don't look in the mirror.” Doh! So of course I looked in the mirror! It was horrible to a high school girl trying to impress certain boys! One of my friends said they had an idea, and I should wash all that make up off. So I did. She took out her black eyeliner and wrote on my cheek “Double Play, we're going to States!” and drew an arrow to my eye. I got a lot of high fives that day, even from one of the boys I thought was sooo cute! Oh High School!

Now,my daughter tells me I throw like a girl. She's a Pitcher and as an adult I'm going to have a heart attack one of these days just watching!

95 posted on 04/30/2012 8:50:30 PM PDT by MacMattico
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To: Pharmboy
I noticed the calls going downhill in the 1990s

Umpire

96 posted on 04/30/2012 8:52:41 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Pharmboy
When did this start??

When Ty Cobb started sharpening his metal spikes?

97 posted on 04/30/2012 8:52:41 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature ($1.84 - The price of a gallon of gas on Jan. 20th, 2009.)
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To: dewawi

Dry up sonny. Take your nOOb troll arrogant condescending crap back over to the DUmp....I hear the ‘rats over there love punks like you.


98 posted on 04/30/2012 9:02:14 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired high up in the mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a GREAT life!)
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To: dewawi

zot


99 posted on 04/30/2012 9:10:13 PM PDT by xone
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To: magellan

I actually saw a traveling call in an NBA playoff game a couple of nights ago.


100 posted on 04/30/2012 9:16:25 PM PDT by RightFighter (It was all for nothing.)
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